While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.
Wisdom
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Quotes by James Branch Cabell
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
Courage
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
Wisdom
Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?
Love
People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
Love
No lady is ever a gentleman.
Wisdom
Patriotism is the religion of hell.
Wisdom
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
Wisdom
Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Courage
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Courage
There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
Wisdom